Monday, February 21, 2005
Blogging = free speech?
I don't want to get too political here, but I thought it is interesting that free speech now has another forum... Blogs. In US, we are fortunate to have the right (most of the time) to write whatever we want without (much) fear of prosecution. People in other countries are not so fortunate. According to a BBC story and the site "Committee to Protect Bloggers" at least 2 Iranians were imprisoned for what they wrote in blogs. While I can't read Farsi so I can't vouch for what they wrote, it really hit home how much I may have taken free speech for granted.
On a related note, the deputy director for the Committee to Protect Bloggers was fired from her job as air-stewardess for Delta for posting inappropriate pictures of herself in uniform on her blog. While one can argue that it wasn't the best of taste, nothing "indecent" was exposed. How Delta handled it was a publicity disaster. See for yourself: Diary of a fired Flight Attendant.
On a related note, the deputy director for the Committee to Protect Bloggers was fired from her job as air-stewardess for Delta for posting inappropriate pictures of herself in uniform on her blog. While one can argue that it wasn't the best of taste, nothing "indecent" was exposed. How Delta handled it was a publicity disaster. See for yourself: Diary of a fired Flight Attendant.
